WHY????
Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2014 3:04 pm
Was the sweet loving the bosses daughter thread deleted?
Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.-Mark Twain
Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship. Bruce Coville
Everyone has an opinion, and the guy screaming for censorship may be the next guy to have his ideas cut off.-Richard King
Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor. -William O. Douglas, dissenting, Roth v. United States, 354 U.S. 476 (1957).
There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.-Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, Coda (1979 edition).
Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed. - Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech at Dartmouth College (14 June 1953)
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. -Benjamin Franklin "Apology for Printers" (1730); later in Benjamin Franklin's Autobiographical Writings (1945) edited by Carl Van Doren
Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime. -Potter Stewart, in dissenting opinion in Ginzburg et al v. United States (1965), also quoted in Censorship Landmarks (1969) by Edward De Grazia, p. 492
The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.-Tommy Smothers
When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say. George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say? Kurt Vonnegut
What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist. Salman Rushdie
t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers. Judy Blume
Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence. Salman Rushdie
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. Golda Meir
To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves. Claude Adrien Helvétius
When one writer tries to silence another, he silences every writer-and in the end he also silences himself. David Leavitt
We change people through conversation, not through censorship. Jay-Z, Decoded
Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can't vent any anger against them. I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere, in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence. They were only taught to look one way when many ways exist.?? Charles Bukowski
The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion. Henry Steele Commager
They are afraid of words and thoughts; words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home, all the more powerful because forbidden, terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words; they are afraid of the workings of the human mind- Winston Churchill, in "The Defence of Freedom and Peace (The Lights are Going Out)", radio broadcast to the United States and to London (16 October 1938)
and for those of us that that like boobies.....
Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretense, has always been and always will be the last resort of the boob and the bigot. Eugene O'Neill
